Women protesting around the world – in pictures

A longer view: from Senegal to Syria, women have put themselves at the front of different protest movements all over the world during the past week – La Paz, Bolivia: a woman clashes with riot police during a protest by hundreds of disabled people in La Paz to demand government support | David Mercado/Reuters

They look pretty frantic to stop her, don’t they? Think they have enough cold hard men in blue with riot shields to do the job?

Relegated to being outsiders – when women are half, more than half, of the damned species.

Well, well, well… I responded on that thread to somebody who thinks you have to be a Tea Party stalwart to dislike Obama’s bullshit healthcare plan. I went off to the kitchen to throw something in the oven, and by the time I came back my comment was No More.

Pretty unsporting of Doctrow. Is he on the Hope/Change 2012 payroll or something…?

“Kaptur, the longest serving woman in Congress, has apparently won the Democratic primary. … A big reason is that Kaptur carried 94 percent of the vote in her home Lucas County, while Kucinich won 73 percent of the vote on his home turf, Cuyahoga County. …

Kucinich made his concession speech just past midnight Wednesday as the sometimes nasty faceoff ended. He said Kaptur ‘ran a campaign lacking in integrity, filled with false truths.'” http:// bit.ly/y0YZkg

Both units of the San Onofre Nuclear Plant are currently shut down. Let’s keep them that way, to prevent a Fukushima USA from happening here. We love our community and don’t want to lose it.

While it may be comforting to some that Southern California Edison says they are unwilling to restart either reactor until THEY are satisfied that it is safe to do so, the history of San Onofre itself, and of the nuclear industry in general, strongly suggests THEY will consider the “million dollars a day” they are losing in revenue per reactor each day while the reactors are offline, more than they will consider the risks and problems that restarting these old jalopies might cause to the population at large.

The local community is unprepared for the sort of catastrophic event a nuclear reactor meltdown would be for Southern California

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Long ago, Dr. John Gofman, the first person to isolate working quantities of plutonium for the Manhattan Project, described the building of nuclear reactor power plants as “premeditated murder.” After Fukushima and Chernobyl, there can be no doubt.

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Why do they keep rebuilding these old reactors? Because new ones are A) Prohibitively expensive and B) Prohibited by law in California. So instead, San Onofre has been permitted to replace major parts that were never meant to be replaced, and to let uninspected parts continue to operate until they fail.

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On and on it goes… ’til of course it stops… Almost have to laugh, San Onofr sits on or near multiple fault lines.

That was certainly kept under the radar. In other ‘energy nooz’, one can only hope that the solar storm effects, expected to take place sometime early morn EST (between midnight and 7 AM from what I’ve read) tomorrow, will fry any remaining (all of them?) GPS devices, attached to Lone Wolver’s vehicles, ….for starters …….

Exit polls in both Michigan and Ohio show voters making more than $100,000 per year turning out in much higher numbers this year than they did in 2008. And in both cases, they might well have provided the difference for Romney.

In 2008, 22 percent of GOP primary voters in Michigan made at least $100,000, and that group made up 21 percent of the electorate in Ohio, according to exit polls.

This year, 33 percent of voters in Michigan made that much money, while 30 percent of Ohio voters did.

In both cases, the number of wealthy voters grew by about 50 percent — a pretty stunning increase in that demographic over just a four-year span.

Welp, if anyone far less ‘emotional’ (not that that would prevent that person from being tracked as a suspect; …despite ….not having any, … whatsoever, ….. record of violence and ugly deeds), …. or, if you are someone with the knowledge to “Comment”™ …. without being traced and tracked, …. who would like to “Comment”™ , …. as regards to the attempt to totally outlaw, …….. $UZ$ Protest, ……. DO have at it, by:

JAISAL NOOR: It’s really interesting, because a lot of people don’t know that some of the key organizers, the key founders of Occupy Wall Street are actually public school teachers. They know better than anyone the effects of the 1 percent having this undue influence on public education. You have Bill Gates, Eli Broad, these rich, wealthy philanthropists that are backed by—first by No Child Left Behind, now by Race to the Top, that these people, who would never send their kids to a public school, can dictate the policies that are implemented in public schools across the country through these unelected school boards, as we see in Chicago and in New York. And, you know, Karen Lewis can definitely talk more about the struggles in Chicago, one of the areas that has been most altered under No Child Left Behind and where the prototype for Race to the Top, Renaissance 2010, was first created.

AMY GOODMAN: And of course, this is extremely important because Chicago is where President Obama comes from and where his secretary of education, Arne Duncan, comes from. Juan?

JUAN GONZALEZ: And where his former chief of staff [Rahm Emanuel] is now the mayor. Well, Jaisal, I want to turn back to your reporting in Chicago. Three Chicago teachers agreed to speak to you on the condition that you film only their hands and distorted their voices. I want to play a part of your interview with a teacher in a school managed by the Academy for Urban School Leadership.

and Oh ! Emanuel!!!™:

KAREN LEWIS: Yes. When I first met him [Rahm Emanual ], we had dinner together, and he said, “Well, you know, 25 percent of these kids are never going to be anything. They’re never going to amount to anything. And I’m not throwing money at it.” And I was like, “Wow! You know, even if you believe that, you can’t say that to me.” So, I just watch how he has used black and brown and poor children as props to push an agenda that is all about privatization and all about so-called accountability, but it’s really the status quo, because once schools get put on probation here in Chicago, the Chicago Public Schools takes over, takes away the democratically controlled local school councils, takes that power away from them to hire and fire and evaluate principals and to spend discretionary funds. So, we see this cultur of punishment and culture of disinvestment, and it is rampant and obviously spreading throughout the country.

I don’t know, I just hope his/their lips are busted wide open on that hoody hoopsy court yard, … then fester and pus, threatening that bloodline to the ‘heart,’ …no antibiotics strong enuf to cure, …with no sympathy … other than: resign you nasty mother fuckers …..and live the rest of your lives ….in shame ….or making amends ….not that you could make enough amends by the time ya’ll rot in your ‘graves’. …..at the rate yinz is goin.

If I might say …. .I wonder if Basket ball wasn’t initially a condemnation of the whole Elite Males (and femalez) Wit Deformed Ballz/Ballz Games commentary .. which … of course, if it was, … was Usurped …. by those … very same Elite Males (and femalez) Wit Deformed Ballz .. .just like …..greenz, ……. sweetbreads, ….et al, …. anything that the oppressed found to satirize, …. Usurped …by those deformed beings who feel the need to Own and Abuse anyone that refuses to suck their Dick or Dildoe.

So.

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from Howl

I'm with you in Rockland
where we wake up electrified out of the coma
by our own souls' airplanes roaring over the
roof they've come to drop angelic bombs the
hospital illuminates itself imaginary walls collapse
O skinny legions run outside O starry
spangled shock of mercy the eternal war is
here O victory forget your underwear we're free
I'm with you in Rockland
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-
journey on the highway across America in tears
to the door of my cottage in the Western night

October 7 1955

"a remarkable collection of angelson one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure

Democrats…

Same as goddam fucking forever.
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
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Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.